Expanding the range of bioorthogonal tags for multiplex stimulated Raman scattering microscopy

Murphy, Neville and Tipping, William J. and Braddick, Henry J. and Wilson, Liam T. and Tomkinson, Nicholas C.O. and Faulds, Karen and Graham, Duncan and Farràs, Pau (2023) Expanding the range of bioorthogonal tags for multiplex stimulated Raman scattering microscopy. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 62 (48). e202311530. ISSN 1433-7851 (https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202311530)

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Abstract

Multiplex optical detection in live cells is challenging due to overlapping signals and poor signal-to-noise associated with some chemical reporters. To address this, the application of spectral phasor analysis to stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) microscopy for unmixing three bioorthogonal Raman probes within cells is reported. Triplex detection of a metallacarborane using the B−H stretch at 2480–2650 cm−1, together with a bis-alkyne and deuterated fatty acid can be achieved within the cell-silent region of the Raman spectrum. When coupled to imaging in the high-wavenumber region of the cellular Raman spectrum, nine discrete regions of interest can be spectrally unmixed from the hyperspectral SRS dataset, demonstrating a new capability in the toolkit of multiplexed Raman imaging of live cells.

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